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Originally Posted by Guinness
You really are the worst advert for a traditional labour voter, you say nothing, substantiate nothing and prove nothing. You shy away from any thread that criticises your party because you are so blinkered in your views you cannot see the wood for the trees and you cannot debate.
Every single post you make is a simple *sticks tongue out* na na na na nah, totally without any supporting argument, totally without a personal view.
Graham Jones must cringe every time he reads one of your posts because they show the mentality of the typical new labour voter....attack a policy, don't offer an alternative view to the policy and then skulk away to find something else to attack without having an alternative......oh wait..that is Millibandism isn't it?
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I don't know too much about New Labour ... and, for some reason, I don't think I want to know
... but I agree with most of what you say. I've voted for social democratic parties my whole voting life, and folks like C'mon don't help their party's cause one bit. He represents the type of polarization that one sees in the US. I believe that toryism is the wrong form of politics for the average joe ... that would be most of us
The answer is not partisan rant; leave that to the attack ads at election time. Those who are comfortable with a left of center government should work within the party that best represents how they feel that governments should act. Best way is to work with an existing party; new parties don't usually take off unless they represent a strong localized constituency. The Parti Quebecois is a good example.
I believe government should attempt to represent everyone, even those opposed to them. I don't think that the tories in the UK are doing this right now. That doesn't mean that they aren't capable of doing so. It does mean that they seem to be prisoners of an outdated social and economic ideology. A lot like C'mon actually.